In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 32
Although a king of this country will try to destroy the impression, it can never be entirely destroyed.’
Who acts: king · What happens: try, destroy, not destroy · To what, where: impression, country
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 8 try | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 try | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 try | aux |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 destroyed | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 destroy | mark |
| 10 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 try | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 impression | det |
| 12 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroy | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 try | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 destroyed | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 destroyed | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 18 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 19 destroyed | advmod |
| 19 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 destroyed | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | future | a king of this country | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | a king of this country not said here | the impression | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not destroy | can · passive | country | entirely property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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